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I think most have similar reasons as me. My Laptop died a few months ago and I've been planning on buying the new MacBooks (would be my first Mac). The very high prices (especially for the 16GB of Ram that I would get) have made me look elsewhere.

What kind of tasks do you usually do? My old Laptop was already 6 years old when it died so I have no point of reference haha.

I was considering that option. How much RAM do you think I'd need? My work machine is an old thinkpad with 12GB but it does slow down/freeze fairly frequently (this might be a because of other reasons though) so I am thinking that 8GB would never be enough. Is macOS less or more resource intensive?

Can anyone here give me Buying Advice?

Mine just died and I was really looking forward to this event because I have wanted to switch to Mac for a while now (I really don't like the "new" Windows interface and I've only had trouble with my previous Windows Laptops) but I don't see a reason to pay what would amount to about 2 months pay for one of the just announced MBp.

I want to be able to do all kinds of hardware intensive things (photo and video editing, data science/statistics, maybe software development) because I don't know what exactly I will need my laptop for yet and want it to last for at least 4-5 years. I'd also love my machine to be designed with some care, I just can't stand the look of the Thinkpad series.

Any ideas?

Would working through this book be sufficient to be able to start doing data science/analysis work?

Some context: I did my undergraduate degree in Economics (in a pretty math intensive university), have been working in marketing for the last 2 years and want to go back to do work in something more analysis centered.

So here's what I wrote in my 5 minute session. I like the App, it forced me to do a more introspective form of writing I'm pretty sure I would have not done otherwise. It's also a nice way to see just how much stuff can be written down in 5 minutes if you don't care too much (or at all) about content. I don't know if it has any applications beyond the novelty of the concept but it could be an ice way to do some journaling/get some stuff out of your head.

Lets see how this works. It counts my words per minute. Im slow. I guess. I dont know. Jason sneel seems to be faster than me. hmmm. I¿ve run out of ideas and everything is sloooowing down. also id like a nice mechanical keyboard if only for the hipsterness of it all. and maybe i wouldnt get confused about keyboardlayout then. maybe I would, who knows. All I know is that I should really be working right now. Also: Why am I writing in English instead of Spanish or German? Is this really the language I can most comfortably express myself? I guess 8 years of GIBS and a lifetime of consuming american media has taken its toll. Not that I'm complaining. I like English, its fun, its easy. There is no formal way to adress people and there is only a single article. Using the for everything is great. It spares me from a lot of problems. Also not having accents. Thats super nice. Only the occasional ' which I am completely ignorning at the moment. Oh and capital letters, there are none. Except. At. The. Beginning. Of. Sentences. Thats super neat too. Everything that keeps me from thinking too much about how to write lets me think more about what to write. I wont complain. I am seeing that you can write a loot of stuff in 5 minutes if you dont care about the content. This is probably mostly gibberish but there might be something useful in here. Im still slow though, right now stabilizing at around 60 wpm. I can type faster but I am still thinking too much. Mostly about the keyboard and the placement of my fingers on it. its not entirely comfortable. And im done.